News tagged with life anxiety

Sleep breathing machine shows clear benefits in children with sleep apnea

Children and adolescents with obstructive sleep apnea had substantial improvements in attention, anxiety and quality of life after treatment with positive airway pressure (PAP)—a nighttime therapy in which a machine ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Surgery on toy animals lessens anxiety of veterinary students

Training basic surgical techniques on toy animals before having to perform operations on living animals makes veterinary students much less anxious. At the same time, the use of laboratory animals is minimised. This is documented ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

We are what we experience: study

the ups and downs, and everything in between -- shape us, stay with us and influence our emotional set point as adults, according to a new study led by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New therapy may help people with unexplained symptoms of pain, weakness and fatigue

A new type of therapy may help people with symptoms such as pain, weakness, or dizziness that can't be explained by an underlying disease, according to a study published in the July 27, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the me ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Accentuating the positive may eliminate the negative in teenagers with anxiety

Training teenagers to look at social situations positively could help those with anxiety and may help prevent problems persisting into adult life, new research from Oxford University is beginning to suggest.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Satisfaction with the components of everyday life appears protective against heart disease

While depression and anxiety have long been recognised as risk factors for heart disease, there is less certainty over the beneficial effects of a 'positive' psychological state, Now, following a study of almost 8000 British ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Panic symptoms increase steadily, not acutely, after stressful event

Just like everyone else, people with panic disorder have real stress in their lives. They get laid off and they fight with their spouses. How such stresses affect their panic symptoms hasn't been well understood, but a new ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Controlling' partners suffer more conflict with sexual desire

People who feel secure in in their relationship with their partner have a more satisfactory sex life and are more able to be sensitive in the affection they give. However, people who are insecure, who tend towards anxiety ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

More knowledge not always helpful for women dealing with heart disease

Women with congestive heart failure who repress their emotions, especially anger, are more likely than emotionally expressive women to experience symptoms of depression associated with knowledge about their disease, according ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created May 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Emotional and physical wellness might be linked to longer life

A new study supports a belief that many people assume is true: You are more likely to live longer if you have remained physically and mentally fit.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A healthy mind makes a healthy body in teens

Happier youths are also healthier youths, according to Emily Shaffer-Hudkins and her team, from the University of South Florida in the US. Adolescents' positive emotions and moods, as well as their satisfaction with life, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cognitive behavior therapy helps older adults with anxiety reduce worry, improve mental health

Older adults with generalized anxiety disorder who received cognitive behavior therapy had greater improvement on measures of worry, depression and mental health than patients who received usual care, according to a study ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0